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seeing the US men's hockey team laughing on the phone to Trump as he apologetically says they'll also have to invite the women's gold medal team to the White House with them just cements the fact that sports are not for men. they can go do other hobbies, like disappointing their mothers. weak shit.

Text on Twitch's website saying "Verify Your Identity" "Submit proof of identity and location to receive your payout" "In order to receive your payout, you need to verify your identity through Persona, Twitch's identity verification service. You will have 3 tries. Please be ready to provide both of the following: 1. A picture of your government-issued identification card, such as an identity card, passport or driver's license. 2. A "selfie" (i.e., a picture of your face), taken using a webcam or phone camera. By clicking "Start Verification" below, you understand that you will be leaving Twitch and will be redirected to Persona's service, and further understand and acknowledge that Twitch may send Persona limited personal information about you to facilitate the identity verification process, in accordance with Twitch's Privacy Notice. Information you provide to Persona will not be used for any purposes other than to verify your identity and will not be stored for longer than necessary to fulfill this purpose. Need Help? See our detailed onboarding guide." "Start Verification"

Twitch is requiring new Affiliates, before their first payment, to give government photo ID and a separate photo to Persona, the same Persona that has connections to government mass surveillance programs. When I asked Twitch support for another option, they said there isn't one. #twitch #persona 1/4

Satellite proposals threaten the night sky In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the agency responsible for authorizing satellite launches and operations…

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan.
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Quakertown parents, groups demand release of students in police clash Civil rights groups and parents gathered in front of the Quakertown Police Department Saturday demanding answers for the violent confrontation Friday.

INBOX: the police chief of Quakertown, Pa., led a group of plainclothes officers to disrupt a peaceful high school student sidewalk protest yesterday.

They threw an underage girl to the ground, choked her, and disconnected all calls to the detention center where she and others are currently held.

They are in downtown St Paul at this very moment casing restaurants that close soon and the 3 hospitals.

Observer friend was followed home into downtown by 2 confirmed ICE plates this morning. Took her pic and drove away, didn't hide it.

This ain't over at all.

Evil ass people. I bet she’s not the only one.

Here’s the link:

www.fox4news.com/news/dallas-...

Man Opposing Data Center Arrested for Speaking Slightly Too Long An Oklahoma man tried to talk about a data center coming to his community. Police arrested him when he went a few seconds over his time limit.

Strange guerrilla marketing for Eddington

“Blanchard showed up at a Claremore City Council meeting to talk about public records and the data center. When he went over his allotted 3 minutes by a few seconds, the city had him arrested and charged with trespassing.” www.404media.co/man-opposing...

It’s nice to see some joined up thinking, followed up action. Bravo Amsterdam!

CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.

"Patreon post header by Matthew Cortland, dated 02/12/2026, titled 'Oz Is Turning Medicaid Into a Surveillance Tool for ICE.' Includes a screenshot of a tweet from Ashish K. Jha (@ashishkjha) on February 9, 2026, which reads: 'People get mad at me for saying this but I think @DrOz has done a very good job overseeing CMS. Not just because he's advocating for vaccines. But because he's running a complex bureaucracy efficiently, promoting smart policy choices, etc. I am thankful for his leadership.' Jha's tweet is a quote tweet of Frank Luntz sharing an ABC News article quoting Oz saying 'Take the vaccine, please' as measles cases rise."

Oz's CMS is handing Medicaid data to the regime's child abducting, nurse murdering gestapo. In 28 states, ICE can see your diagnoses, your prescriptions, and where you receive care. No court restrictions at all. I wrote about how this works and what it means.

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It's not enough to criminally prosecute these people when Trump is out of office. We need to be going after their fucking money relentlessly, hounding them and their families and dismantling their financial empires like a resurrected Thomas Dewey from the 1930s.

Oklahoma lawmakers consider mask ban, harsher penalties for rioters Lawmakers advanced a bill out of committee that would implement harsher penalties for rioters, including longer prison terms and requirements that out-of-state residents be held without bail.

Lawmakers advanced a bill out of committee that would implement harsher penalties for rioters, including longer prison terms and requirements that out-of-state residents be held without bail. Oklahoma Voice reports: www.kgou.org/politics-and...

Crumbs & Whiskers, DC’s first cat cafe, temporarily(?) closed in Georgetown, Staff says this happened right after they decided to form a union. - PoPville photo by Ryan Maxwell Ed. Note: There is no announcement about a temporary closure on the Crumbs and Whiskers website (or socials), having said that, appointments are not available to visit until Marc...

Solidarity forever with the workers at DC's cat cafe who were put out of work by their union-busting owner after they announced they intended to unionize. www.popville.com/2026/02/crum...

this helps manufacture consent that people trying to not get a neurotropic disease that can cause lifelong disability without a cure are the crazy ones. this framing is explicitly condescending, misleading, and does real harm.

Ring has been very very cooperative, even proactively helpful, to law enforcement (and getting more so by the day). We already know they have a form cops can fill out to get access to footage without warrant or permission in an “emergency” as determined by them. What will this mean for new features?

Multiple friends have caught COVID recently, including some of my more cautious pals. There are a lot of winter germs in crowded places right now, fam. Personally, I never feel that shopping or riding transit unmasked is worth potentially getting sick. You can always renew this practice.

A beloved workers' rights organizer in Minnesota, known for *successfully* fighting against wage theft and labor trafficking, has been detained by federal immigration agents and is now locked up in New Mexico. His family is calling for his urgent release. inthesetimes.com/article/work...

americans: whenever you see a turbotax advertisement, never let yourself forget that turbotax and companies like it are WHY we have to file taxes like we do in the first place.

RFK Jr. Says He Refused to Wear a Mask Because He’d Rather Die of Covid Than Be ‘Living Like a Slave’ RFK Jr. addressed the Libertarian National Convention Friday and told an anecdote about his views on masking during the Covid pandemic.

Liberals take note: Saying that masks are 'living in fear, 'extreme' or infringements on your freedom are right-wing talking points.

Avoid these unless you want to sound like RFK Jr.

www.mediaite.com/politics/ele...

WE FUCKING DID IT!
OKC Mayor Holt announces the ICE facility in OKC is not happening!

What is ICE Air? Learn more about ICE’s massive, secretive and cruel air operation, which companies are profiting off of it, and what you can do to stop it.

Yup. Flight attendants have been reporting this to FAA for years. They don’t care. gillianbrockell.ghost.io/what-is-ice-...

ICE Deportation Flights Are Getting Longer and Crueler A private equity-owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown.

There's a lot more in the story, including the account of a Maryland mother of four deported to Vietnam on an Omni plane in November.

"I felt like I was less than an animal."

Please read it.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A representative for one of the largest, the New York State Common Retirement Fund, said it had not been aware of Omni's role in deportation flights but had "contacted Stonepeak to seek additional information and under stand how these serious issues are being addressed."

So here's the rub: Dozens of Stonepeak's investors are public-employee retirement funds, including many in blue states. And the human rights abuses happening on Omni's ICE flights would probably violate a lot of their ESG policies -- IF THEY KNEW ABOUT THEM.

Nine people arrested during Midland ICE operation Immigration & Customs enforcement along with local authorities, arrested multiple people at a Midland construction site.

Telemundo 20 and First Alert 7 crews on scene report that the Midland County Sheriff’s Office and Midland Fire Department were at the site along with I.C.E. and Homeland Security Investigations.

www.firstalert7.com/2026/01/31/n...

Remember this the next time the firefighters union comes to the public with their hand out.

Crunch Fitness issued guidance to their employees to not interfere with ICE raids, to not hide people, and to roll over and do everything ICE says. They don’t even say to verify that they have a warrant.

Fuck ICE and every cheesedick on their payroll. 😘

These agencies are a direct, ongoing threat to the freedom, safety, and welfare of every person who lives in this country. That's it. They have to go. "But what about--" sorry we'll figure that out later. Everything is secondary to ending fascist goon squads

'The folks are fearful.' Haitians living in Ohio may soon lose temporary protected status • Ohio Capital Journal Thousands of Haitians living in Ohio will lose their temporary protected status next week unless a federal court blocks it.

Haitians in Springfield, Ohio lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. There will very likely be a major ICE incursion the next day. Haitians in Springfield were the targets of Vance’s lying during the campaign.
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Border czar Tom Homan: We'll continue to conceal the identities of the ICE mercenaries murdering soccer moms and nurses in the streets—but we'll doxx anyone who tries to stop the kidnapping and murder.

Tim Walz: "I'm going to give Homan the benefit of the doubt."

Trust no politician. Abolish ICE.🏴

The fact that she was interviewed multiple times on NPR discredits their coverage of the pandemic and makes it unsurprising they started using the false “post pandemic” language so quickly.